CFLRP Annual Report: 2014
CFLR Project (Name/Number): Lakeview Stewardship Landscape/CFLR016
National Forest(s):Fremont-Winema National Forest
Responses to the prompts on this annual report should be typed directly into this template, including narratives and
tables.
1. Match and Leverage funds: A total of $8,638,772 was invested in implementation and monitoring in the Lakeview
Stewardship CFLR Project as described below.
a. FY14 Matching Funds Documentation
Fund Source – (CFLR Funds Expended 1)
Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
CFLR/CFLN Funds Expended (this is different than the amount
FY2013 CFLN Rollover 1,691,667
2
allocated)
FY2014 CFLN 1,015,369
Subtotal 2,707,036
1
Fund Source – (Carryover funds expended (Carryover to in addition
to CFLR/CFLN) 3 (please include a new row for each BLI))
NFTM
WFWF
NFVW
Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
Fund Source – (FS Matching Funds
(please include a new row for each BLI) 6)
CMCM
CWF2
CWKV
NFEX
NFNF
RTRT
SFSF
SRS2
TPBP
URMJ
WFWF
Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
Subtotal 1,117,933 4 5
707,465
51,437
359,031
843,996
13,341
22,651
72,360
1,694,802
914,076
18,681
242,410
62,931 7
18,912
164,897
This amount should match the amount of CFLR/CFLN dollars obligated in the PAS report titled CFLR Job Code Listing and
Expenditure Report – Detailed Analysis by Fiscal Year.
2
This amount should match the amount of CFLR/CFLN dollars obligated in the PAS report titled CFLR Job Code Listing and
Expenditure Report – Detailed Analysis by Fiscal Year.
3
This value should reflect the amount of carryover funds allocated to a project as indicated in the program direction, but does not
necessarily need to be in the same BLIs as indicated in the program direction. These funds should total the matching funds obligated
in the PAS report.
4
Did not spend $41,862 of WFWF Carryover funds due to a change in implementation strategy. Cost of project decreased
substantially, resulting in this cost savings late in the fiscal year when monies could not be reallocated.
5
These values were not captured in PAS, but reflect the WO carryover dollars expended for restoration activities in FY2014.
6
This amount should match the amount of matching funds obligated in the PAS report. **Note: Funds from TPBP BLI were
reported in PAS but not reported here, as they are not accepted for match consideration per the CFLR policy direction.
7
PAS incorrectly lists $62,931 for TPBP Matching Funds expended, but actual expenditure was only $4,645—budget correction in
progress as of 3/10/15.
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Fund Source – (FS Matching Funds
(please include a new row for each BLI) 6)
Dual Chiefs award 8
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Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
561,561
Subtotal 4,630,618
Fund Source – (Funds contributed through agreements 9)
Oregon Department of Corrections
Lake County Weed Board
Lake County Resource Initiative (LCRI)
Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council
Northwest Youth Corps (NWYC)
Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC)
Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
87,305
37,003
40,886
34,852
20,378
18,754
Subtotal 239,178
Fund Source – (Partner In-Kind Contributions 10)
N/A
Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
N/A
Fund Source – (Service work accomplishment through goods-for
services funding within a stewardship contract 11)
Service work paid for through the exchange of goods for services in a
stewardship contract
Total Funds Expended in Fiscal Year 2014($)
Subtotal 6,938
6,938
b. Please provide a narrative or table describing leveraged funds in your landscape in FY2014 (one page maximum)
The Fremont-Winema NF benefited from a $10,000 allocation from Federal Highways to finish the design for the repair
of some segments of the 2800 Road. This is a major arterial road for achieving forest restoration goals in the northern
half of the CFLR unit. This road has seen slumping and some erosion near creeks in recent years, and the Regional
Office’s Zoned Engineering group received this $10,000 (in addition to past monies and efforts) to finish the design and
move closer to the implementation phase.
Extensive sage grouse habitat restoration work has been accomplished on the southeast margin of the Lakeview
Stewardship CFLR boundary. Although leveraged funds data are unavailable at this time, additional federal agencies
(BLM, USFWS, NRCS) are working on adjacent lands for ongoing sage grouse restoration efforts. This concerted effort on
federal and private lands outside the CFLR boundary is improving the effectiveness of our treatments declared within
this report.
Approved by (Forest Supervisor):_/S/_Eric Watrud__________________________
[For] CONSTANCE CUMMINS
Forest Supervisor
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Dual Chiefs Award for $749,061 was awarded to Paisley Ranger District, and $561,561 is the portion of these monies that were
obligated for work within the CFLR boundary. Due to the late award, these were not listed in PAS reports.
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Please document any partner contributions to implementation and monitoring of the CFLR project through an agreement (this
should only include funds that weren’t already captured through the PAS job code structure for CFLR matching funds). Please list
the partner organizations involved in the agreement.
10
Total partner in-kind contributions for implementation and monitoring of a CFLR project. Please list the partner organizations that
provided in-kind contributions. See “Annual Report instructions” for instructions on how to document in-kind contributions.
11
This should be the amount in the “stewardship credits charged” column at the end of the fiscal year in the TSA report TSA90R-01.
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2. Discuss how the CFLR project contributes to accomplishment of the wildland fire goals in the 10-Year
Comprehensive Strategy Implementation Plan, dated December 2006. In a narrative format, describe the progress to
date on restoring a more fire-adapted ecosystem, as identified in the project’s desired conditions. This may also include
a description of the current fire year (fire activity that occurred in the project area) as a backdrop to your response
(please limit answer to one page).
The 10-year comprehensive strategy establishes a framework for priority setting, accountability and partnership to
ensure effective, efficient, and focused investments in fuels treatments. The strategy also focuses Federal land
management efforts in collaboration with those of State, Tribal and local governments to reduce risk of unwanted
wildfire to people, communities, and natural resources.
The goal of the Lakeview Stewardship CFLRP project is to return fire to the role it historically filled and thus restore fireadapted ecosystems. The Long-Range Strategy for the Lakeview Federal Stewardship Unit recommends an accelerated
thinning and prescribed burning program, focused on the relatively dry, low-elevation ponderosa pine and mixed conifer
forests. A new Accelerated Landscape Restoration plan was accepted for the Fremont-Winema NF this year that
mirrors these goals, which treats large landscape-size watersheds and will further the goals of CFLR in the future.
In Fiscal Year 2014, a total of 19,248.1 acres were treated with prescribed fire in Non –WUI areas. Fuel reduction-tree
thinning occurred on another 14,783.8 acres this year. Integrated treatments of understory thinning followed by
prescribed fire are changing the fuel strata, reducing the threat of severe fire across the landscape, and promoting
healthy forest conditions.
To increase prescribed fire accomplishments within the unit, ranger districts met to discuss their implementation plans
and improve communication between specialists. These discussions led to improved coordination to create larger
landscapes for burning, and better planning of activities to complete treatments in older projects. The identification of
these larger blocks means fire specialists can reintroduce fire to treat more acres when suitable burn windows are
present in the future, rather than divide their efforts on smaller units. Slash and biomass piles from previous treatments
have also been an obstacle to achieving more acres of treatment, so fire staff have been diligently burning these piles
over the past year to allow for future broadcast burns on larger acreages.
Additionally, the Fremont-Winema completed the Risk Cost and Analysis Tool (R-Cat) modeling this year to assess the
effectiveness of treatments to reduce the size and cost of future wildfire. This exercise brought to light the pace of
restoration needed in this landscape, and the expected effects of our current treatments. After completion of the
projected vegetation treatments through 2019, annual fire suppression expenditures associated with the CFLR unit are
expected to decline by about $484,000 at the end of the CFLR project according to the model, with a total of $5.1 million
in fire suppression savings when projected out to 2033 (with cost and revenue discounted by 4% annually).
3. What assumptions were used in generating the numbers and/or percentages you plugged into the TREAT tool?
TREAT analyzes for an “impact area”, defined as Lake County for the Lakeview Stewardship CFLRP project. Only funding
that went to contractors located within this impact area were included in the calculations. It was estimated that about
7% of the total funds (CFLR and matching) were used to fund contractors from Lake County for project activities.
Contracting funds that were expended on contracts that went to firms outside the impact area contribute to leakage
from the local economy. 25% of CFLR funds were used for Forest Service personnel and equipment costs.
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FY 2014 Jobs Created/Maintained (FY14 CFLR/CFLN/ Carryover funding only):
Type of projects
Direct part
Total part and
Direct Labor
and fullfull-time jobs
Income
time jobs
Commercial Forest Product Activities
----$0
Other Project Activities
4.8
5.9
$131,707
TOTALS:
4.8
5.9
$131,707
FY 2014 Jobs Created/Maintained (FY14 CFLR/CFLN/ Carryover and matching funding):
Type of projects
Direct part
Total part and
Direct Labor
and fullfull-time jobs
Income
time jobs
Commercial Forest Product Activities
60.2
87.3
$3,897,848
Other Project Activities
6.3
7.7
$163,668
TOTALS:
66.5
95.0
$4,061,516
Total Labor
Income12
$0
$161,072
$161,072
Total Labor
Income13
$5,022,893
$202,802
$5,225,695
4. Describe other community benefits achieved and the methods used to gather information about these benefits
(Please limit answer to two pages).
The Lakeview Stewardship Group (LSG), the Fremont-Winema National Forest, and the Lake County Resources Initiative
(LCRI) worked together in 2014 to increase public awareness of CFLR goals and contracting opportunities in the CFLR
boundary related to forest restoration.
LCRI hosted the Chewaucan Biophysical Monitoring Team consisting of four high school students and six college
students led by Clair Thomas, Tillamook School District 9 Natural Resource Director. CFLRP funds were provided through
an agreement with LCRI and the Forest to help fund the crew in 2014. The Lakeview Stewardship Group developed the
Chewaucan Biophysical Monitoring Project in 2002 to answer questions about current conditions and effects of
management on the Chewaucan watershed within the Lakeview Stewardship Unit. Their role was extended in 2013 to
also include collecting detailed data over FIREMON plots within the CFLR boundary, the pace of which increased
significantly in 2014. Over time, the project has expanded to include the entire Lakeview Federal Stewardship Unit that
comprises the CFLRP landscape. One of the goals of the monitoring project is to recruit and train, each year, a field staff
composed of high school and college students either currently or previously enrolled in Lake County schools. This is an
important program for local youth and young adults, developing not only knowledge and skills but also a passion for
natural resource based science and career opportunities.
The Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC) has been a local partner with the Forest Service for the past eight
years. Through an agreement made possible with CFLRP funds, a crew of 6 youth from low-income households in the
Lakeview area, led by adult supervisors, accomplished a variety of resource enhancement projects at recreation sites
and trails in the Lakeview Stewardship Unit. These projects included 11.5 miles of trail restoration and maintenance,
ADA-accessible path clearing for recreation facilities, and dock installation to mitigate lakefront erosion. The COIC was
able to use the CFLRP funds as leverage for additional funding to help sustain their program activities.
Through a Stewardship Agreement, a crew of 11 youth and 2 crew leaders from the Northwest Youth Corps (NWYC)
maintained 68 miles of recreation trails on the Crane Mountain National Recreation Trail (NRT) and portions of the
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Values obtained from Treatment for Restoration Economic Analysis Tool (TREAT) spreadsheet, “Impacts-Jobs and Income” tab.
Spreadsheet and directions available at http://www.fs.fed.us/restoration/CFLR/submittingproposals.shtml#tools.
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Values obtained from Treatment for Restoration Economic Analysis Tool (TREAT) spreadsheet, “Impacts-Jobs and Income” tab.
Spreadsheet and directions available at http://www.fs.fed.us/restoration/CFLR/submittingproposals.shtml#tools.
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Fremont NRT. CFLRP funds give the Fremont-Winema National Forest the ability to partner with NWYC to accomplish
labor intensive trail maintenance work across the Lakeview Stewardship CFLRP landscape, while providing young men
and women with job skills and training.
The Paisley Youth Conservation Corps was a new partnership forged in 2014 that was composed of a four-person crew
located in the north end of the CFLR landscape. The high school-age crew worked on trail maintenance and restoration
near fisheries sites and the Fremont NRT, repaired cattle exclosures around recreation sites, and graveled a pathway to
an ADA-accessible restroom near a remote recreation site.
Employment opportunities were realized as CFLRP funding was directed toward local and regional contracts. Significant
community outreach, field tours, and discussions were held to improve local contracting opportunities. Additional
opportunities exist to build capacity with more local (Lake County) contractors that would have the ability to perform
restoration work such as stream and riparian enhancement, juniper reduction thinning, small tree fuels reduction
thinning, meadow and aspen enhancement, and road decommissioning. Therefore, discussions with potential local
contractors and county leaders were held to address these concerns. Knowledge gained regarding the size, timing, and
types of contracts that could entice more local bidders for CFLR contracts was gained and will be implemented in future
contracting. The CFLR coordinator also worked closely with Lake County Resources Initiative staff to inform and assist
potential contractors to compete for federal contracts by registering with the Strategic Asset Management system
(SAM) used by federal agencies for service contracting.
The Back Country Horsemen (Bend and Klamath Falls chapters) group volunteered for trail maintenance within the CFLR
boundary in 2014. The group performed trail maintenance (brushing and clearing logs) on approximately 30 miles of the
Fremont NRT. The group, composed of horseback riders from the area, greatly improved the access and aesthetics of
this trail for future recreational use.
Warner Creek Correctional Facility inmates contributed to the CFLR restoration goals through an agreement in 2014,
performing 75 acres of handpiling small diameter material in conifer stands and 160 acres of handpiling cut material in
aspen stands. These piles will be burned in Fall 2014 or Spring 2015 to reduce fuel loads. This fuel reduction work
contributes to both the vegetative and wildlife restoration goals for these stands.
The Lakeview Stewardship Group received the Chief’s Honor Award in 2014 from the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service for
“Meeting America’s Needs.” Jody Perozzi will accept the award on behalf of the Stewardship Group in a ceremony in
early December in Washington, D.C. This award, one of the 14 Chief’s Honor Awards bestowed in 2014, highlights the
community engagement and successful collaboration achieved through hard work over the past 14 years together with
the Stewardship Group.
5. Describe the multiparty monitoring, evaluation, and accountability process (please limit answer to two pages).
Social and economic monitoring
A social and economic monitoring plan was finalized with the assistance of the University of Oregon Ecosystem
Workforce Program and Oregon State University, College of Forestry. Social and economic monitoring of the CFLRP will
be completed by both entities in cooperation with Lakeview Stewardship CFLR members. Current social and economic
monitoring activities focused on measuring past patterns of restoration contracting, past local capture of offered
restoration contracts, and the economic impacts of past restoration work to provide a baseline for comparison. In
addition to baseline development, we completed preliminary social and economic analysis of years 1 and 2 Lakeview
Stewardship CFLR activity. Key information found in the baseline analysis that will inform future CFLR efforts includes:
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25% of service contracts for ecological restoration in Lake County between 2007 and 2011 were awarded to
local contractors.
Local contractors were most successful at capturing restoration contracts that required heavy equipment use or
technical services.
There are a number of locally-based contractors that provide fire suppression contract services for the federal
government but who do not participate in restoration contracting work.
Restoration service contracting with local contractors in Lake County between 2007 and 2011 supported about 3
jobs per year.
Local companies were better able to be able to get Forest Service restoration work when they worked as subcontractors on projects being completed by Collins Pine Company—the timber company that is the mill in the
Lakeview Sustained Yield Unit.
Lakeview CFLR partners have been able to leverage CFLR funds to support the work of their organizations and
local partner organizations are integral to completing a variety of project implementation and monitoring
activities.
Ecological Monitoring
The Chewaucan Biophysical Monitoring Team (CBMT) spent the summer of 2014 establishing 34 Fire Monitoring sites
and 28 Aspen sites in the CFLRP area. The Fire Monitoring sites were established in the Crooked Mud Honey project
area of the North Warners. These sites will be treated and then burned prescriptively. Most of these sites had been
entered at least twice before. Surveys taken in these sites included: plot descriptions, photopoints, extensive individual
tree data, seedling and sapling data, tree clumping data, species richness, species diversity, cover and density for all
vegetation, fine and coarse woody debris, shrub density, width and height, soil characteristics, soil compaction and soil
chemistry. Our soil surveys revealed that the last entries between 2004 and 2007 had relatively no impact on soil
condition class while entries from 30-40 years ago still had some soils with higher compaction and lower species
richness.
The Aspen sites were established to look at the effect of conifer encroachment and conifer removal on suckering and
soil nutrients. The sites that were established this year provide baseline data for future years. These plots run through
aspen stands and on into the surrounding habitat to measure and expansion of aspen stands that occur. Surveys
included: plot descriptions, photopoints, extensive tree data, sucker and sapling age and size tallies, species richness,
species diversity, cover and density for all vegetation, soil characteristics, soil compaction and soil chemistry.
The CBMT also revisited 6 sites in prescribed fire, wildfire, and aspen. Next year we will be revisiting 20 Fire
Monitoring sites in the Deuce project area, 12 prescribed fire sites in the Thomas Creek Burn, and around 20 sites in the
Barry Point Wildfire.
The 3 sites revisited in aspen revealed that suckering has increased by a factor of 3 times, soil moisture has increased in
spite of the drought this year, herbaceous species richness is about the same, however the biodiversity indexes have
increased significantly. Sadly there was also a sizable increase in bull thistle in one of the stands, possibly due to ground
disturbance. The thistles came in where a grove of conifers had been removed. All aspen areas visited were also heavily
visited by large mammals (elk, deer, bear, bobcat, cougar, raccoon) and a plethora of birds.
The prescribed fire site we revisited was the first site treated in the Deuce project area. Data revealed that the
prescribed burn was mosaic with around80% of the area being affected. The fire had effectively removed more than
70% downed wood and litter, raised the dead branch level on trees between 5 to 10 feet and killed most seedlings and
saplings. It appeared very successful. The results were highly favorable and the method used to burn this stand will be
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mimicked this fall and coming spring in the rest of the Deuce project area. The CBMT will survey these areas next
summer and then 5 and 10 years in the future to better understand vegetative and soil recovery from prescribed burns
and how to manage the prescribed burn and areas following prescribed burns.
The wildfire site was on Dog Mountain in the 90,000 acre, Barry Point Fire area. This was the hardest hit area in the
wildfire. The area is now covered with very large wire lettuce (3-5 ft. tall), and a scattered population of buckbrush that
is expanding its size and territory. Some of the largest trees (incense cedar) have already fallen. There were less than 1
regenerating conifer per acre. Soils that were badly eroded with 7cm rivulets every meter have eroded another 4cm,
but a lot of that erosion has apparently filled the rivulets instead of being washed, en-mass, down Dog Mountain and
into Dog Creek. The waters of Dog Creek are still dark with eroding soils from the fire. The CBMT will be monitoring
more in this area next year to determine vegetative and soil response management priorities.
Major creeks in the CFLRP area are monitored during low flow and following any storm that dumps large amounts of
water on the landscape. Creeks were monitored for turbidity, temperature, oxygen and pH. The area had much more
rain this summer than normal and one large storm. Monitoring revealed little erosion except in the Barry Point Burn
area (Dog Creek, Drews Creek), and on the Chewaucan River downstream of a natural down-cut below Marster Springs
(this area has always had high turbidity as the river cuts into the steep hillside). The turbidities of these two sites was >
40NTU’s. The rest of the 21 creeks monitored had turbidities <10NTU’s, temperatures less than 64°F, oxygen between 5
and 8 mg/L and ph”s between 6.5 and 7.0, indicating well-functioning streams.
The CBMT effort was supported by many members of all branches of the forest service as they helped set up monitoring
protocols, selected sites, toured sites, gave feedback and held events where crew members of the CBMT and forest
service could discuss the monitoring effort.
The CBMT did not monitor any decommissioned roads road this year except as they crossed monitoring sites. As with
past monitoring data we found that recently decommissioned road that were scarified shallowly or simply blocked revegetated much quicker than roads that were sub-soiled deeply below the topsoil, mixing all of the horizons of soil.
These areas were mostly re-vegetated with planted trees and some invasive weeds, but with a poor component of
natural vegetation.
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6. FY 2014 accomplishments
Performance Measure
CFLRP Annual Report: 2014
Unit of
measure
Total Units
Accomplished
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Total
Treatment
Cost ($)
Acres treated annually to
sustain or restore
watershed function and
resilience
WTRSHD-RSTR-ANN
Acres
57,808
---
Acres of forest vegetation
established
FOR-VEG-EST
Acres
5,521
914,076
Acres of forest vegetation
improved FOR-VEG-IMP
Manage noxious weeds
and invasive plants
INVPLT-NXWD-FED-AC
Highest priority acres
treated for invasive
terrestrial and aquatic
species on NFS lands
INVSPE-TERR-FED-AC
Acres of water or soil
resources protected,
maintained or improved to
achieve desired watershed
conditions.
S&W-RSRC-IMP
Acres of lake habitat
restored or enhanced
HBT-ENH-LAK
Acres
11,879
1,521,355
Acre
704
197,065
Acres
N/A
---
Acres
N/A
N/A
Acres
1
16,000
Miles of stream habitat
restored or enhanced
HBT-ENH-STRM
Miles
9.65
178,821
Acres of terrestrial habitat
restored or enhanced
HBT-ENH-TERR
Acres
19,646
984,483
Acres of rangeland
vegetation improved
RG-VEG-IMP
Acres
6118
18,391
Type of Funds (CFLR, Specific FS
BLI, Partner Match) 15
This measure is calculated as the
sum of TIMBER-SALES-TRT-AC
(Unified), FOR-VEG-IMP, FOR-VEGEST, S&W-RSRC-IMP, INVPLTNXWD-FED-AC, HBT-ENH-TERR,
HBT-ENH-LAK, RG-VEG-IMP, and
FP-FUELS-NON-WUI.
RTRT 914,076
CFLN1614 225,000
CFLN1613 825,288
CFLN1613 99,608
CFLN1613 146,225
CFLN1613 38,728
CFLN1613 31,668
CFLN1613 24,964
CFLN1614 129,874
CFLN1613 22,065
CFVW1614 125,000
SRS2 50,000
N/A
(Integrated Target)
Accounted for in other measures
CFLN1614 16,000
CFLN 1614 46,000
CFWF 1614 32,384
CFWF 1613 51,434
SRS2 49,000
CFLN1613 558,753
NFEX 72,360
CFTM1613 263,800
SRS2 78,589
CFLN1614 18,391
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Units accomplished should match the accomplishments recorded in the Databases of Record.
Please use a new line for each BLI or type of fund used. For example, you may have three lines with the same performance
measure, but the type of funding might be two different BLIs and CFLR/CFLN.
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Performance Measure
Miles of high clearance
system roads receiving
maintenance
RD-HC-MAIN
Miles of passenger car
system roads receiving
maintenance
RD-PC-MAINT
Miles of road
decommissioned
RD-DECOM
Miles of passenger car
system roads improved
RD-PC-IMP
Miles of high clearance
system road improved
RD-HC-IMP
Number of stream
crossings constructed or
reconstructed to provide
for aquatic organism
passage
STRM-CROS-MTG-STD
Miles of system trail
maintained to standard
TL-MAINT-STD
Miles of system trail
improved to standard
TL-IMP-STD
Miles of property line
marked/maintained to
standard
LND-BL-MRK-MAINT
Acres of forestlands
treated using timber sales
TMBR-SALES-TRT-AC
Volume of Timber
Harvested
TMBR-VOL-HVST
Volume of timber sold
TMBR-VOL-SLD
Green tons from small
diameter and low value
trees removed from NFS
lands and made available
for bio-energy production
BIO-NRG
Acres of hazardous fuels
treated outside the
wildland/urban interface
(WUI) to reduce the risk of
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Type of Funds (CFLR, Specific FS
BLI, Partner Match) 15
Unit of
measure
Total Units
Accomplished
Total
Treatment
Cost ($)
Miles
103.6
186,782
CMCM 186,782
Miles
175.2
524,810
CMCM 379,226
CMCM 145,584
Miles
16.02*
*Also
added 46
miles of RDSTOR-CLOSED
miles this year
145,126
CFLN1614 100,000
CMCM 45,126
Miles
N/A
N/A
N/A
Miles
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Number
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149,788
CFLG1614 12,000
SRS2 13,840
SRS2 40,000
CFRD1614 83,948
Miles
81.8
93,000
CFLN1614 18,000
CFVW1614 75,000
Miles
N/A
N/A
Miles
15
78,000
Acres
1,000
N/A
CCF
2,764.1
18,681
CCF
30,101.5
552,650
Green
tons
14.1
7,705
CFTM1614 7,705
189,313
CFLN1614 21,591
CFLN1614 15,000
CFLN1614 90,000
Acre
19,248.1
N/A
CFLN1614 77,000
CFLN1613 1,000
N/A
SFSF 18,681.36
Pilot, Drill, and Hay projects were
awarded in FY 2014
CWKV 22,650.89
CFTM1614 530,000
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Performance Measure
Unit of
measure
Total Units
Accomplished
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Total
Treatment
Cost ($)
catastrophic wildland fire
FP-FUELS-NON-WUI
Acres of wildland/urban
interface (WUI) high
priority hazardous fuels
treated to reduce the risk
of catastrophic wildland
fire
FP-FUELS-WUI
Number of priority acres
treated annually for
invasive species on
Federal lands
SP-INVSPE-FED-AC
Number of priority acres
treated annually for native
pests on Federal lands
SP-NATIVE-FED-AC
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Type of Funds (CFLR, Specific FS
BLI, Partner Match) 15
CFHF 62,722
CFHF 100,000
CFTM1613 50,000
Acres
14,783.8
150,000
Acres
N/A
N/A
N/A
Acres
N/A
N/A
N/A
7. FY 2014 accomplishment narrative – Summarize key accomplishments and evaluate project progress. (Please limit
answer to three pages.)
The restoration strategy of the Lakeview Stewardship CFLRP is based upon the Long-Range Strategy for the Lakeview
Federal Stewardship Unit (2011 update). The fundamental goals of the Strategy are to:
• Sustain and restore a healthy, diverse, and resilient forest ecosystem that can accommodate human and natural
disturbances.
• Sustain and restore the land’s capacity to absorb, store, and distribute quality water.
• Provide opportunities for people to realize their material, spiritual, and recreational values and relationships
with the forest.
In this, our third year of funding for CFLRP, the focus was on moving forward with restoration in areas where the
planning process had been completed and projects could be put on the ground and move through contracting quickly.
Projects that included partners also received priority for funding.
Vegetative treatments occurring within the Lakeview Stewardship CFLRP landscape are aimed at promoting healthy
forest conditions where fire can be allowed to take a more natural role in maintaining a sustainable ecosystem. This
year marked a return to the normal program of work following the Barry Point Fire of 2012. Approximately 15.1 MMBF
of thinning contracts were awarded under the 10-year Stewardship Contract with The Collins Companies in the Pilot,
Drill, and Hay project areas (30,101 CCF from approx. 3700 acres). These thinning contracts represent a significant step
forward in achieving the acres presented in our original proposal, and a resumption of the normal pace of treatments
after the Barry Point Fire.
In Fiscal Year 2014, a total of 19,248 acres were treated with prescribed fire in Non –WUI areas, an 11,000-acre increase
over FY13. Fuel reduction-tree thinning occurred on another 14,783.8, a 10,000-acre increase over FY13. Integrated
treatments of understory thinning followed by prescribed fire are changing the fuel strata, reducing the threat of severe
fire across the landscape, and promoting healthy forest conditions. Hazardous fuels treatments included burning
landing and biomass piles in the Dent timber sale area last winter (which allowed the underburning of a 1000 acre unit
in the spring), burning existing piles in the Jakabe/Launch Projects, burning 916 acres of piles in Launch, 33 acres in
Green Creek, 99 acres in Trail, 168 acres in Ben Young, and 120 acres in Kava, for a total of 1237 acres of piles. Under
burning was completed in Ben Young unit 11, (953 acres) and Ben Young unit 7, (76 acres) for a total of 1029 acres of
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under burning. Further removal of piles in West Drews and Burnt Willow has cleared significant areas that were
prepped for underburning in 2015. The Paisley RD prepared 2,000 acres for prescribed burning that will be carried out
in FY 2015. On-going burning of existing juniper piles in the North Warner Sage/Shrub Project eliminates raptor perches
and subsequently improves sage grouse habitat in addition to reducing fuel loadings.
Juniper was harvested in West Drews Environmental Assessment area, where 4,856 acres of encroaching juniper were
removed for watershed restoration.
The Burnt Willow precommercial thinning contract was awarded to treat 1,367 acres within the Burnt Willow EA. This
adds to the 376 acres of precommercial thinning awarded in FY 13 using CFLR funds, for a total of 1,743 acres treated.
This PCT was essential to finishing work in this landscape-level project currently in place on the Lakeview Ranger District
which includes harvest, precommercial thinning, juniper thinning, riparian thinning, and prescribed fire.
Fuels reduction thinning work was accomplished on 683 acres under the 2014 Deuce pre-commercial thinning project
using CFLR funds. Thinning work will reduce fuels and lower the risk of high intensity wildfire. Prescribed burning is
planned after thinning work is complete to re-introduce fire back onto the landscape.
CFLR funds were used to award 1775 acres of fuels reduction contracts under the WRZ Multi Treatment/Jakabe
contracts in 2014. This work is planned for fuels reduction activities, to allow low intensity fire back onto the landscape.
Hazard trees along haul routes for forest restoration treatments were felled for safety and log removal from the Hay and
L.A. sale areas. Approximately 1,500 danger trees were removed that posed a hazard to vehicles traveling along the
roads in the Hay Stewardship Sale, over approximately 42 miles of roads. Additional hazard tree removal was performed
along the Red Zone safety corridors and near the LA Stewardship Project.
Through an agreement with the Dept. of Corrections, the Warner Creek Correctional Facility crews performed 75 acres
of handpiling small diameter material in conifer stands and 160 acres of handpiling cut material in aspen stands. These
piles will be burned in Fall 2014 or Spring 2015 to reduce fuel loads. This fuel reduction work contributes to both the
vegetative and wildlife restoration goals for these stands.
The South Warner Aspen/Meadow Restoration project is a landscape level restoration project involving Federal and
Private landowners. Aspen stands are considered “wildlife and biodiversity hotspots” within the dry forest ecosystem.
The goal of this project is to restore and enhance existing aspen/meadow habitats for wildlife habitat improvement and
create conditions favorable to landscape burning. Restoring aspen and meadow habitats adjacent to completed timber
sale units and on private land will create large blocks of habitat that can be “landscaped burned” even across ownership
boundaries. To-date 263 acres have been treated on private lands and 1075 acres on Federal lands. Landscape level
burning will be initiated in the Fall of 2014. The project area identified 2094 acres of aspen/meadow habitat for
treatment and the remaining acres will be treated in FY2015.
The West Drews Juniper/Aspen/Meadow Treatments project is a landscape level restoration project involving Federal
and Private Landowners. What started out with treating an individual aspen stand has evolved into restoring aspen and
wet/dry meadow ecosystems adjacent to completed timber sale units. Connecting completed timber sale units to
aspen/meadow habitats will create large blocks of treated habitat. These treated habitats will have reduce fuel loading,
reduce crown fire potential and will ultimately promote healthy forest conditions. In addition post-landscape burning
the project area will exhibit a mosaic of succession that is very beneficial to TE&S and MIS wildlife species. To-date 850
acres have been treated on private land and 2907 acres have been restored on Federal lands. The project will be
complete after treatments in FY2015.
The Dog Creek Headcut Repair and Meadow Restoration was completed to improve water quality and enhance habitat
for aquatic species. The restoration efforts aimed at repairing banks that were incised by 2-5 feet across a 0.5 mile
section, allowing the creek to access its historic floodplain during high flows, and repairing a large headcut (an abrupt
and unnatural drop in streambed elevation). A combination of wood, rock, and/or dirt fill was added to the stream
channel and the stream banks were re-contoured using a tracked excavator. Fill material was placed within the stream
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channel up to floodplain elevation. This project restored fish passage to over 1 mile of stream and restored hydrologic
function and wildlife habitat to over 50 acres of riparian and meadow area.
Funds were provided for Modoc Sucker Restoration in the Upper Thomas Creek area. The funds were obligated under
an agreement and will be used for stream restoration efforts in FY15. This project will repair and replace log weirs and
other structures within Upper Thomas Creek to allow passage of the threatened and endangered Modoc Sucker.
The 2012 Barry Point Fire affected approximately 40,000 forested acres on the Fremont-Winema NF with mixed severity.
Approximately 42% of the forested acreage experienced 75 to 100 percent mortality. In 2014, 4916 acres of the Barry
Point Fire area were reforested using RTRT matching funds.
Invasive plants were treated on 704 acres in cooperation with partners. The Forest Service works collaboratively with
the Lake County Cooperative Weed Management Area on existing projects, which include adjacent private landowners
along Thomas Creek, Augur/Camp Creek, and Chewaucan River, in Summer Lake, Clover Flat, Crooked Creek, north end
of the Warner Mountains. Inventorying and treating new populations before they become well-established is the most
effective means for controlling invasive plants and preventing spread. The project goals and objectives are: suppression
of known invasive plants populations, surveying for new invasive plants sites, and restoring treated areas. Currently, a
large portion of invasive plants treatments occur along major access roads into the forest. The additional funds
provided through CFLRP allow new sites to be treated as well as expanded treatment of existing sites.
Ruby Pipeline Mitigation Funds’ cost reimbursement monies assisted in funding 29.6 acres of invasive plants treatment
along the natural gas pipeline right-of-way and access roads.
CFLR staff identified the need to focus on road decommissioning efforts in 2014. CFLR funds were used to
decommission 16.02 miles of roads in the Abe Vegetation Management area, and close an additional 46 miles of roads.
A rock crushing contract was awarded for the Buckaroo Pit to a local contractor, which will provide material to maintain
roads on the Paisley Ranger District for forest restoration treatments in the coming years of CFLR work.
Over 15 miles of boundary line maintenance were performed in 2014 using CFLR funds. These activities are essential to
the implementation of restoration treatments, and have allowed us to prep many more acres for treatment in FY15.
Through an agreement made possible with CFLRP funds, a Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council (COIC) crew of 6
youth accomplished a variety of resource enhancement projects at recreation sites and trails in the Lakeview
Stewardship Unit. These projects included 11.5 miles of trail restoration and maintenance, ADA path clearing for
recreation facilities, and dock installation to mitigate lakefront erosion. The COIC was able to use the CFLRP funds as
leverage for additional funding to help sustain their program activities.
Through a Stewardship Agreement, a crew of 11 youth and 2 crew leaders from the Northwest Youth Corps (NWYC)
maintained 68 miles of recreation trails on the Crane Mountain National Recreation Trail (NRT) and portions of the
Fremont NRT.
The Paisley Youth Conservation Corps was a new partnership forged in 2014 that was composed of a four-person crew
located in the north end of the CFLR landscape. The crew worked on trail maintenance and restoration near fisheries
sites and the Fremont NRT, repaired cattle exclosures around recreation sites, and graveled a pathway to an ADAaccessible restroom near a remote recreation site.
The Back Country Horsemen (Bend and Klamath Falls chapters) group volunteered for trail maintenance within the CFLR
boundary in 2014. The group performed trail maintenance (brushing and clearing logs) on approximately 30 miles of the
Fremont NRT. The group, composed of horseback riders from the area, greatly improved the access and aesthetics of
this trail for future recreational use.
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Warner Creek Correctional Facility inmates contributed to the CFLR restoration goals through an agreement in 2014,
performing 75 acres of handpiling small diameter material in conifer stands and 160 acres of handpiling cut material in
aspen stands. These piles will be burned in Fall 2014 or Spring 2015 to reduce fuel loads. This fuel reduction work
contributes to both the vegetative and wildlife restoration goals for these stands.
Employment opportunities were realized as CFLRP funding was directed toward local and regional contracts. Significant
community outreach, field tours, and discussions were held to improve local contracting opportunities. Additional
opportunities exist to build capacity with more local (Lake County) contractors that would have the ability to perform
restoration work such as stream and riparian enhancement, juniper reduction thinning, small tree fuels reduction
thinning, meadow and aspen enhancement, and road decommissioning. Therefore, discussions with potential local
contractors and county leaders were held to address these concerns. Knowledge gained regarding the size, timing, and
types of contracts that could entice more local bidders for CFLR contracts was gained and will be implemented in future
contracting. The CFLR coordinator also worked closely with Lake County Resources Initiative staff to inform and assist
potential contractors to compete for federal contracts by registering with the Strategic Asset Management system
(SAM) used by federal agencies for service contracting.
The Lakeview Stewardship Group received the Chief’s Honor Award in 2014 from the Chief of the U.S. Forest Service for
“Meeting America’s Needs.” Jody Perozzi will accept the award on behalf of the Stewardship Group in a ceremony in
early December in Washington, D.C. This award, one of the 14 Chief’s Honor Awards bestowed in 2014, highlights the
community engagement and successful collaboration achieved through hard work over the past 14 years together with
the Stewardship Group.
To increase prescribed fire accomplishments within the unit, ranger districts met to discuss their implementation plans
and improve communication between specialists. These discussions led to improved coordination to create larger
landscapes for burning, and better planning of activities to complete treatments in older projects. The identification of
these larger blocks means fire specialists can reintroduce fire to treat more acres when suitable burn windows are
present in the future, rather than divide their efforts on smaller units. Slash and biomass piles from previous treatments
have also been an obstacle to achieving more acres of treatment, so fire staff have been diligently burning these piles
over the past year to allow for future broadcast burns on larger acreages.
8. Describe the total acres treated in the course of the CFLR project (cumulative footprint acres; not a cumulative total
of performance accomplishments). What was the total number of acres treated? 16
Fiscal Year
FY14
FY10, FY11, FY12, FY13 and FY14 (as applicable- projects
selected in FY2012 may will not have data for FY10 and
FY11; projects that were HPRP projects in FY12, please
include one number for FY12 and one number for FY13
(same as above))
Total number of acres treated (treatment footprint)
20,523
44,067
9. In no more than two pages (large landscapes or very active fire seasons may need more space), describe other
relevant fire management activities within the project area (hazardous fuel treatments are already documented in
Question #6):
There were 13 wildfire starts within the CFLRP landscape in FY 2014, and successful suppression efforts lead to only 5.56
acres burned. A total of $134,269 was spent on suppression activities within the CFLR boundary in FY14.
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This metric is separate from the annual performance measurement reporting as recorded in the databases of record. Please see
the instructions document for further clarification.
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10. Describe any reasons that the FY 2014 annual report does not reflect your project proposal, previously reported
planned accomplishments, or work plan. Did you face any unexpected challenges this year that caused you to change
what was outlined in your proposal? (please limit answer to two pages).
We are working to resolve scheduling conflicts related to implementation of prescribed fire. In providing for restoration
across the landscape, implementation of prescribed fire has been reserved until other restoration work (i.e. small tree
thinning, juniper and aspen treatments) is completed. We are looking for ways to accelerate our prescribed fire
implementation so that we can continue on course to meet our planned accomplishments in the coming years. Ranger
districts met individually in 2014 to discuss their implementation plans and improve communication between specialists.
These discussions led to improved coordination to create larger landscapes for burning, and better planning of activities
to complete restoration treatments in older projects. The identification of these larger blocks means fire specialists can
reintroduce fire to treat more acres when suitable burn windows are present in the future, rather than divide their
efforts on smaller units. Slash and biomass piles from previous treatments have also been an obstacle to achieving more
acres of treatment, so fire staff have been diligently burning these piles over the past year to allow for future broadcast
burns on larger acreages.
Our original CFLRP proposal anticipated construction of a biomass cogeneration plant in Lakeview, which would provide
the opportunity to utilize the available supply of woody biomass and small diameter trees resulting from forest
restoration treatments. Iberdrola Renewables, LLC announced in 2012 that the project implementation is on hold until
the business climate improves. A lack of local infrastructure, distance to existing markets, capacity and simple
economics present challenges to removing biomass from the forest. Removal of previously-created biomass piles was
seen as a priority in FY13, and “Abe Biomass” piles were offered to the public for bids. No bids were deemed acceptable
through contracting, however, and the contract was not awarded.
In 2014, Colorado-based Red Rock Biofuels was selected for a Department of Defense grant to construct a facility that
produces jet fuel from biomass and wood waste products. Red Rock is very ambitious to begin construction after
receiving this $70 million grant, but significant obstacles remain before the facility can be constructed in Lakeview. If
constructed, Red Rock would become an important partner for increasing the pace of forest restoration within the CFLR
unit, and they have met with the collaborative stewardship group on several occasions to outline their plans. The design
states that the new biomass-to-liquid plant in Lakeview will convert some 170,000 tons per year of forestry and sawmill
waste into approximately 1,100 barrels per day of ultra clean transportation fuels if constructed.
We are also working to create more opportunities for local contractors to be involved in CFLR restoration activities.
Significant progress was made this year in identifying obstacles to the success of local contractors competing for service
work contracts. We recognize that, although they improved this year, the job creation and sustaining numbers in the
TREAT analysis show leakage out of our designated impact area (Lake County). To address this, CFLR staff have been at
the forefront of engaging the public, to assist local contractors on how to successfully bid on government contracts.
CFLR staff have engaged Acquisitions Management (AQM) staff to identify additional contracting instruments, timing,
and size to increase encourage more local contractors to bid on projects. The contracting officers from AQM performed
two field visits to the CFLR unit in October-November 2014 to discuss improvements and increase communication.
One of our focus areas for 2014 was to achieve reportable accomplishments and develop a plan forward for road
decommissioning. Our proposal includes many miles for decommissioning, but completing all planned restoration
activities to implement the decommissioning has proven difficult in past years. In summer 2014, CFLR staff met with
Engineering, Aquatics, Timber, Planning, and Natural Resources staff to develop a plan to achieve road decommissioning
goals. From this meeting a system for decommissioning has been identified, and we were able to record our first
accomplishment in the unit this year. Although we are still behind the necessary pace to achieve our goals, we recorded
16 miles decommissioned, 46 miles of closed roads, and now have a plan going forward to identify and implement our
decommissioning plans to achieve our targets.
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11. Planned FY 2016 Accomplishments
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Performance Measure Code
Acres treated annually to
sustain or restore watershed
function and resilience
WTRSHD-RSTR-ANN
Acres of forest vegetation
established
FOR-VEG-EST
Acres of forest vegetation
improved FOR-VEG-IMP
Manage noxious weeds and
invasive plants
INVPLT-NXWD-FED-AC
Highest priority acres treated
for invasive terrestrial and
aquatic species on NFS
lands
INVSPE-TERR-FED-AC
Acres of water or soil
resources protected,
maintained or improved to
achieve desired watershed
conditions.
S&W-RSRC-IMP
Acres of lake habitat
restored or enhanced
HBT-ENH-LAK
Miles of stream habitat
restored or enhanced
HBT-ENH-STRM
Acres of terrestrial habitat
restored or enhanced
HBT-ENH-TERR
Acres of rangeland
vegetation improved
RG-VEG-IMP
Miles of high clearance
system roads receiving
maintenance
RD-HC-MAIN
Miles of passenger car
system roads receiving
maintenance
RD-PC-MAINT
Miles of road
decommissioned
RD-DECOM
Miles of passenger car
system roads improved
RD-PC-IMP
Unit of measure
Acres
Acres
Acres
Acre
Acres
Planned
Accomplishment
Amount ($)
Integrated Target
addressed by other
20,000 measures
5,000 90,000
10,000 1,500,000
500 100,000
N/A N/A
Acres
Acres
Miles
Acres
Acres
Miles
Miles
Miles
Miles
Integrated target
addressed by other
8,500 measures
N/A N/A
5 150,000
6,000 500,000
3,000 150,000
100 50,000
120 100,000
20 200,000
N/A N/A
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Please include all relevant planned accomplishments, assuming that funding specified in the CFLRP project proposal for FY 2016 is
available. Use actual planned funding if quantity is less than specified in CFLRP project work plan, and justify deviation from project
work plan in question 13 of this template.
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Performance Measure Code
Miles of high clearance
system road improved
RD-HC-IMP
Number of stream crossings
constructed or reconstructed
to provide for aquatic
organism passage
STRM-CROS-MTG-STD
Miles of system trail
maintained to standard
TL-MAINT-STD
Miles of system trail
improved to standard
TL-IMP-STD
Miles of property line
marked/maintained to
standard
LND-BL-MRK-MAINT
Acres of forestlands treated
using timber sales
TMBR-SALES-TRT-AC
Volume of Timber Harvested
TMBR-VOL-HVST
Volume of timber sold
TMBR-VOL-SLD
Green tons from small
diameter and low value trees
removed from NFS lands
and made available for bioenergy production
BIO-NRG
Acres of hazardous fuels
treated outside the
wildland/urban interface
(WUI) to reduce the risk of
catastrophic wildland fire
FP-FUELS-NON-WUI
Acres of wildland/urban
interface (WUI) high priority
hazardous fuels treated to
reduce the risk of
catastrophic wildland fire
FP-FUELS-WUI
Number of priority acres
treated annually for invasive
species on Federal lands
SP-INVSPE-FED-AC
Number of priority acres
treated annually for native
pests on Federal lands
SP-NATIVE-FED-AC
Unit of measure
Miles
Number
Miles
Miles
Miles
Acres
CCF
CCF
Green tons
Acre
Acres
Acres
Acres
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Planned
Accomplishment
Amount ($)
N/A N/A
5 150,000
80 100,000
N/A N/A
15 75,000
2,000 Stewardship Contract
10,000 Stewardship Contract
30,000
N/A*
Possible if the
planned biofuels
plant is
constructed
500,000
N/A*
Possible if the
planned biofuels
plant is constructed
15,000 250,000
10,000 130,000
N/A N/A
N/A N/A
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12. Planned FY 2016 accomplishment narrative (no more than 1 page):
CFLRP Annual Report: 2014
The planned FY 2016 accomplishment shown here assumes full funding will be available. Restoration project work such
as stand thinning, hazardous fuels reduction, prescribed fire, wildlife and aquatic habitat enhancement could be
implemented in the following planning areas: West Drews (prescribed fire), North Warner Sage/Shrub Enhancement
(prescribed fire), Deuce, Crooked Mud Honey (CMH) and other areas within the Lakeview Stewardship Unit.
13. Describe and provide narrative justification if planned FY 2015/16 accomplishments and/or funding differs from
CFLRP project work plan (no more than 1 page):
Several of our FY15/16 projects rely on the approval of the Crooked Mud Honey EA for implementation. This project is
still being developed, but expected to be signed in summer 2015.
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